feelings

Malmö, Sweden indie-pop group Hater's stellar You Tried LP is a raw and emotionally charged collection of nostalgic, lovesick jams that remains one of our favorite albums of 2017. "Coming Down", a mostly unheard stunner from the You Tried sessions released as a Japan-only bonus track, is more evidence that Caroline Landahl slays, and that every song she sings feels like an empowering, po

It's fun when a song that has been so incessantly hyped -- and was, by any measure, already a hit before it was even finished -- ends up being as good as you'd hoped. Maryland's Maggie Rogers shares the beautiful finished version of her undeniable viral sensation "Alaska", on which she manages to organically combine her impressive, more traditional folk music background with the "en

Inspired in part by his time traversing to and from Montreal / Toronto / New York and across the varied landscapes between, CFCF's gorgeous, widescreen journey of an LP Outside is both his grandest and most pensive work yet. Listen to the majestic Outside in its entirety below -- ideally while gazing out the window of a train/plane/bus -- and pick it up on October 22 via Paper Bag/Dummy, unless y

Taken from Hemsworth's new LP Guilt Trips, out October 22 on Last Gang Records.

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New self-produced track from Mikky Ekko: the swelling/moving "Disappear" is allegedly a "ruff demo," but it sounds to us like the best thing he's done to date, Hemsworth remix excluded.

Thanks to Jonah Bromwich for reminding us to listen to this rousing, subtly poignant synth-pop gem from Chicago's Edith Beake. We heard a slightly different Uganda-related backstory from Edith than the one Jonah got, but we're still definitely throwing "Always in Love" on this month's mix next to Glass Candy's "The Possessed" for maximum dancefloor yearning/catharsis... Read M

Here's a huge/lush new track from LA producer Shlohmo, taken from his forthcoming Laid Out EP, out March 5 on Friends of Friends x WEDIDIT. Listen over at his awesome new Sus Boy-designed website, you're going to want the pillars + chains raining down when the beat drops for full effect. Check the Laid Out cover art & tracklist after the jump...